Testimonies of Healing

Ten years ago I was a very ill woman with scarcely any hope of recovery. For thirteen years I had been subject to attacks of stomach trouble and had gradually given up eating all kinds of solid food from fear of the suffering which I endured.

From early childhood I was unable to go through a summer season without a severe illness accompanied by great suffering. I had many physicians and all that any of them could do to relieve me was to administer morphine in large quantities.

In 1896 I was healed through the power of Christian Science, after having spent much money and submitted to experimental treatment by many physicians in eastern and western cities for a period of over fifteen years, during which time I was a sufferer from what was diagnosed as a serious kidney trouble. In these years of suffering I was subject to attacks of such severe pain that the attending physician always prescribed a hypodermic injection of morphine.

A little over two years ago my first impressive attention was drawn to Christian Science by a lecture on this subject given by a prominent orthodox minister in his church in Englewood, III. Prior to that time my knowledge of Christian Science was very limited; I had been told of wonderful cures effected by Christian Science, but I gave little credence to what was told me in regard to these healings.

In the spring of 1889 I had been under the care of two physicians of this city nearly all the time for five years, and all the time for three years. During these last years I had grown steadily worse, until I was very thin and in an extremely nervous condition, and could scarcely eat or sleep.

I first looked to Christian Science for the removal of physical and moral ills from which I had been unable to find relief in any other quarter. I had for a long time been a victim of the liquor habit and during later years had more and more frequently drank to excess.

It is with a heart full of gratitude to God for all Christian Science has done for me, that I give this account of my experiences before I was healed. I was afflicted from childhood with ill health, and for over twenty years had suffered with almost every disease that could be thought of.

If any one has reason to be grateful for Christian Science, I am that person. Like Mary Magdalene, I have much to be grateful for, as much has been forgiven me.

It is now ten years since I came to Christian Science for healing. My trouble was pronounced a most serious form of kidney disease.

For six years I was a great sufferer, and was under a physician's care practically all the time. During this illness, six of the most eminent physicians of this city were employed, and they not only failed to give me any relief, but also to agree upon a diagnosis of my case.